Month: July 2018

At the beginning of the year I wrote a Blog article about “A 2018 Market Forecast“. The basic forecast I setup was a rotation of sectors based on the economic and political environment of the time. About a dozen stocks were recommended in 5 sectors. Using those recommendations, I formed a model portfolio and have been tracking the results over the last 6 months. This article will review how that model stock portfolio has performed and offer some portfolio re-allocation ideas. The initial portfolio in January was: There are 10 positions in the portfolio. $100,000 total was invested with about $10,000 in each position. During the last 6 months there have been some wild swings in the prices, but no changes were made to the portfolio. As an example, SLB was up as high as $79 and as low as $63. It is currently at $67 with little change from…